Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go.
AL STEWARTLook to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
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The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
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We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
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most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it’s a tribal thing.
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You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain.
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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
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She doesn’t give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.
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There’s room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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Don’t bother asking for explanations, she’ll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
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And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.
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Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me.
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So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don’t you have a word to say?
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You gave him a license to steal.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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